This is essentially why my wife & I left this year: high taxes & no value in return. We were dealing with multi-day power outages, as just one example.

Nearly half the households in the state owe no income tax, while the top 10% produce something like 2/3 of the income tax revenue. Therefore raising taxes is an easy sell to the voters as a means to make-up the budget shortfalls. This, of course, leaves the state more dependent on a smaller number of taxpayers. It's not merely theoretical: a few years ago *one* taxpayer in NJ relocated, leaving the state with a 100million+ hole in their budget. https://whyy.org/articles/coul...

I infer that you consider the aims of the US and the aims of the CCP to be equivalent in their legitimacy. That is not the case.

Agree